Re: [Lynx-dev] Make a patch under Debian

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:49:30AM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le jeudi 29 décembre 2011 à 06:57:50, Thomas Dickey a écrit :
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:34:09PM +0100, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> > > 
> > > I corrected the translation files for multiple languages where possible in
> > > relation to this bug 
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484250
> > 
> > thanks ;-)
> 
> Okay. I did not realize that you are (one of) the developer(s) of Lynx :-))

yes :-)

though ncurses and xterm get more time...
 
> > However, I did note that patches for the .po files should be sent to
> > the translation project.  I'll do that if you want.  The reason for
> > doing it that way is because the translation project maintains those
> > files.
> 
> Thank you to the relay. I managed to use "make lynx.patch" (that clever) to
> make the patch and I discover that the encoding of some languages is altered. 
> I
> do not know if my editor who screwed up or if it's diff. I give you the patch
> anyway. In any case the changes are trivial and translators can be applied by
> hand to avoid breaking the encoding.
> 
> 
> > > I proceeded as described in the README file using the sources of the 
> > > current
> > > version lynx-cur.tgz.
> > > 
> > > My directory lynx2-8-8 contains another directory orig/lynx2-8-8 with the
> > > originial sources.
> > > 
> > > When I enter the command "$ make lynx.patch" I get the following message:
> > > 
> > > make: No rule to make target 'lynx.patch'. Stop.
> > 
> > hmm - I hadn't looked at that for some time (see below).  But with
> > a little tweaking (the README's misleading), I can make it work.  Here's
> > the directory layout it's trying to describe:
> > 
> >     orig
> >     orig/lynx2-8-7
> >     lynx2-8-7
> > 
> > The last directory of the three is the one where the configure and
> > "make lynx.patch" should be done.
> 
> I understood the need to put in orig lynx.x.y.z It works very well now Thanks.

no problem (I'll see what the translation project can do...)

thanks

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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